How to create a website for free - Get Real!
How to create a website for free - Think again
If you are thinking about the idea of creating a website, the thought of "how to create a website for free" has no doubt crossed your mind.
There are plenty of free hosting websites that you can sign up with and get "free server" space, right?
Yes you can find these types of offers but you'll find they're plagued with problems from security, support, limited features, downtime and other problems.
You need to change your mindset if you want a real website.
The fact is, going the free route when building any type of website that you put time and effort into will create more work for you in the long run.
Keep in mind …designing and hosting a website can be very inexpensive, easily under $4.00 a month if you know where to look. And were talking high quality inexpensive hosting - plenty of space and data- transfer, scripting and database support, multi-domains, phone support, windows based file transfer...etc
Let's break the web design process into 2 parts:
- First, building the actual website
- Second, finding good reliable hosting and you will quickly break free of the "how to create a website for free" mentality.
Building Your Website
Actually, this part can conform to the "how to build a website for free" way of thinking.
We will provide free HTML templates for you to edit - these by the way are great for basic information and adsense type websites.
You don't need to be a web designer and need little in the way of technical skills. If you follow the 6 steps in this website exactly you will end up with a nicely structured website.
These 6 steps require you copy and paste each of the 6 files into a separate notepad file and save them in a folder on your hard drive.
Next you will edit each file in "specific" places so you can display your own unique content. You will be adding your own content , title, headers, and paragraphs to each file.
You will accomplish this by typing in the most basic HTML.
Let's make a distinction here...
You will NOT be designing a web page or structuring the layout in HTML. That is way too advanced at this point. All the layout has been provided so you don't even need to mess around with building pages.
What we will do is pinpoint specific locations in the webpage to add code; "where" to place this is explained in the step-by-step tutorial..
Using this method you'll find that it's quite easy to add content once you get used to the few tags you'll be learning.
Hosting - Choose inexpensive but not free
Avoid any free web hosting services. They are extremely limited. It's much better to pay about $3.99 per month and get good reliable features and plenty of bandwidth and server space.
Of course you'll need to sign up for a hosting account – Domain/Host sign up - step by step.
Once you sign up with the host you need to upload the files to a web host server so they can be displayed on the internet.
This part is relatively simple – the host we suggest requires no FTP software – all the uploading is done through a windows based application right from your computer.
Usually as you are building your website you can upload pages as they are completed that way you can check to see how the page looks online.
Also if you are publishing adsense websites you'll want a host that allows multiple domains on each account. With 1and1.com you can have unlimited domains on one account.
So instead of trying to figure out of " how to create a website for free", concentrate on inexpensive hosting and spending a little time learning how to edit pre made HTML templates – you'll have much more success publishing websites taking this approach.
Get started: Web design primer - read before you start
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